Shaquille O’Neal Left Unimpressed with Los Angeles Lakers Following Their Win Against The Clippers

During the NBA opening night in October, the LA Clippers beat the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers took revenge by beating them on NBA’s reopening night yesterday. In a closely contested game, the Lakers won by just two points, taking advantage of an off-night from the Clippers.

But the Clippers were also without two of their main players. Lou Williams missed the game due to quarantine. On the other hand, Montrezl Harrell was absent, since he hasn’t returned to the bubble after leaving due to a family emergency.

Due to this, Lakers legend and Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal was left unimpressed by his former team’s performance.

During the NBA on TNT show, he said, “I would like to see the Lakers exert more dominance. Beating the Clippers by two without Montrez Harrell and Lou (Williams), I’m not really impressed by that. With them being the number one team in the West, I would like to see them start exerting their dominance blowing teams (away).”

What more do the Los Angeles Lakers need to do?

The Lakers were helped a lot by the sloppiness from their rivals. The Clippers gave away 20 turnovers and were punished with the Lakers scoring 30 points from it. Apart from Paul George and Kawhi Leonard, the Clippers had a terrible shooting night going 34% from the field.

As for the Lakers, LeBron James won it in the clutch, however, he had a poor game prior. The Lakers will be expecting him to do much better than just 6/19 from the field. Danny Green also had a poor night, shooting 2/6 and also giving away four turnovers.

Like Shaq said, against a depleted team like the Clippers, the Lakers should have done more, considering they are the number one team in the West. And if they want to stay there, they need to be more dominant and display a killer instinct. But after this win, the Lakers just need two more wins out of the next seven seeding games to stay as the number one seed. They next face the Toronto Raptors tomorrow and will be hoping to have a better game and be able to put the game to bed earlier.

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